How does someone browse this forum and get to the point of installing Arch without intimately understanding that Arch is infamously, abnormally difficult to install? Proving GPs point perhaps

> When I was younger, I was such an idealist. Anarchy, open borders, free market open trade, pacifism.

I hope you understand now that not even half of Democrats support these things, let alone most of the population, of any country in the world

I would rather a cop risk a runner's life every time than let him continue to flee at speed recklessly for miles on end, usually culminating in crashing into an innocent person or their property. That's not even a question for me. Or would you rather just let criminals run away if they manage to enter a vehicle?

It takes two to tango, and the cop can stop the life-threatening chase at any time, without causing a wreck.

Causing the speeding car to go out of control is also not a great thing for public safety, and does kill and cripple people who are in no way involved in these chases. We have jurisdictions with no-chase rules and it doesn’t seem to cause some hypothesized explosion in crime. It is in-fact ok to not do them, as satisfying as they might feel.

What is the alternative? I'm not advocating causing shoplifters to crash, but I do like the idea that the police pursue criminals.

You can imagine some kind of built in remote kill switch, but I can't see that being advocated here.

Not the best analogy because coffee has massive quality differences that anyone can tell in a real comparison. Brewing at home is also cheaper and requires nothing more than a $20 French press.

I have personally administered double blind taste tests to four unrelated coffee drinkers who believed their current coffee (Keurig, Nespresso, pre ground) was good. They all thought the actual good coffee was much better in the blind tasting, to the extent that they all permanently stopped drinking their previous coffee. Exclamations of shock occurred.

Coffee is a commodity only out of ignorance. It should be treated as fresh produce of numerous varietals.

Have there been any such "tastings" of LLMs?

It's quiet, I get a larger piece of land with a yard that I can enjoy, I can have a porch, there are no homeless people accosting me when I sit on my porch, when I go to the grocery store it is clean and doesn't have a homeless encampment outside the front door, and nobody shoplifts from it so nothing is locked up, etc etc. I used to live in Seattle, these are not invented problems.

50% of your problems are homeless people. Seattle should get homes for those people and that would make it 50% nicer for you.

Yes, Seattle would certainly be much nicer without the homeless people, no argument there. But even if we assume that would reduce the crime rate, I still would prefer my large SFH with a garden and allowing my kids to safely run around the neighborhood unsupervised.

This is not mentioning the gorillion dollars Seattle already spends on homeless help to no avail; asylums are probably the only real solution to that.

Sad but true. White (western European) culture built these institutions and nonwhite cultures will have a hard time upholding them in their current form, if they even wanted to.

I don't think this is related to what's currently happening with Trump, however. That's a separate thing, more of a populist backlash by whites for various reasons.

This is somewhat related to the application of strength to various sports and physical endeavors. Most sports utilize strength to a large degree, but it's usually in a narrow application, e.g. a golf swing, a sprinter's run, a rock climber's grip. The naive algorithm to improve at these sports is to practice them, and the slightly less naive method is to train for strength in that narrow application, for example you often see rock climbers training by doing rock climbing specific grip exercises.

Unintuitively, strength is a general adaptation that applies to all specific movements. A muscle is either strengthened across a range of motion, or it isn't; a muscle cannot be strong swinging a club while not strong lifting a weight, nor can it be strong holding a rock while weak holding a bar. It is optimal for most sports to train for general strength via barbells, and then to practice that strength via the sport. The rock climber should do heavy deadlifts and chinups to train his grip (and everything else), not special rock grip exercises, for the latter are difficult to progress in small increments and are inefficient in a time sense. A man who can do chinups with 150 pounds hanging from his waist, and who can hold a 550 pound barbell, will not have a problem hanging onto the bouldering wall; he need only practice his technique.

To the article's point, you should get "strong" in everything until you decide to practice that strength in one thing.

Workout plans do not need to be tailored. There are one or two dozen of them that are basically optimal for what they do, and everyone should just do those, including women and old people. Tailoring them to a random person's specifications is just going to make them worse 99% of the time, because if those modifications were effective they'd be part of the program, and because a random person will be modifying them mostly to make it easier for themselves. If there was an easy way of getting fit, people wouldn't be so fat; generally if you have chosen an easy fitness program, you are going to remain fat.

Just pick a program and do the program. Using a GPT program is worse than useless; it is going to waste a bunch of man hours.

You could rephrase this program as "this takes optimal training routines and changes them to fit what uninformed people would rather do because it's easier" which is just a bad outcome.

I think the concept might’ve been misunderstood. Supercomp isn’t trying to replace personal trainers or proper workout routines — it’s a fitness program generator that gives people structure and a full overview of what actually matters. Most of us start out just going to the gym without a real plan. I used to do that too — I’d follow a push/pull/legs split, go consistently for months, and still see no results. The problem wasn’t effort; it was that I was guessing everything. I didn’t know my calorie intake, never tracked my macros, barely did any cardio, and had no idea how all these things worked together. That’s what Supercomp fixes. It lays out everything you need in one place. For each day of your plan, you know exactly what’s expected of you — your workouts, meals, macros, cardio, water intake, even meal logging. It takes the confusion out of the process and shows you the full picture. I’ve been using one of my own plans for three months now and have dropped 8 kg. Not because I built some magic tool, but because it’s based on research, real data, and structure. For me, having everything I needed to transform my body in one place made all the difference.

First of all there are already myriad existing good programs that are laid out and tell you what to do. They literally do everything you just said, in a spreadsheet or text file.

Second of all your response is AI slop so I'm not putting any additional effort or elaboration into my comment, since you declined to.

Alright, let's put it this way, I am a newbie, 73kg, 173cm height, I don't know my bf%, I just assume going to the gym is all I need to get an aesthetic physique. What is your suggestion for the best path I should take?

It was genuinely not AI slop. That was me. I would also love if you could share the myriad program example, I don't even know how a regular Joe would know how to navigate to know that a "myriad" program is good for them.

Another thing is the spreadsheet. No one has time to navigate through spreadsheets. That's why apps exist. That's the whole point of user interfaces, to make it easier for users to access things quick and easy.

Also, do you know how difficult it is to calculate macros? An AI guesstimation is way more accurate than a regular human being that has no nutritional knowledge trying to guess the macros in each meal by eyeballing.

I won't say most, but it's clear a lot of men are tempted by the flesh and have to actively choose not to cheat on their partner. This is a trope throughout cultures and histories for a reason. Some are lucky enough to find monogamy trivial and natural, but a lot of people are practicing self control.